(1) Trans-, long- and short-axial images were interpreted quantitatively by circumferential profile analysis, and the extent of fibrotic tissue (%FIB) was estimated by integrating hypoperfused areas in six to eight consecutive short-axial slices.
(2) Glutamic acid residues were found in FIB amino acids.
(3) After the applied treatment changes were recorded in the count of lymphocytes T and B, the shiftings in the group of patients, having been treated with FIBS, were marked more distinctly, particularly in the count of lymphocytes T.
(4) Unlabelled fibronectin inhibited the following binding of labelled fibronectin to beads pretreated in HS-FIB.
(5) Simultaneous high, mid, and low right atrial endocardial bipolar electrograms were analyzed during acute A Fib induced by a rapid train of stimuli (20-40 Hz) for 1-3 seconds in anesthetized closed-chest dogs (N = 7, total of 72 episodes).
(6) Even my mum has tales to tell of her time on the dole, and of welfare inspectors busting in at 7am to check that none of the members of her sharehouse were sleeping in the same bed, and thus fibbing about their relationship status on their claim forms.
(7) We studied 102 children with newly diagnosed acute leukemia (50 retrospective: Group A; and 52 prospective: Group B) with prothrombin time (PT), partial thromboplastin time (PTT), thrombin time (TT), fibrinogen (FIB), and fibrin degradation products (FDP).
(8) After optimal preculture with IFN-gamma, class II positive FIB were fully competent to restimulate proliferative responses of two DR specific T cell clones and one DP specific T cell line.
(9) The transplanted tumor showed both papillo-tubular and solid growth patterns, in which positive reactions for AFP, CEA, ferritin (FER), carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9), albumin (ALB) and fibrinogen (FIB) were confirmed by the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method.
(10) Only mAbs BRhD2 and FIB 1 (which recognizes an epitope in the sequence 174-186) can inhibit IL-1 beta-induced thymocyte proliferation, whereas all four can inhibit the adjuvant capacity of IL-1 beta in vivo.
(11) The 22-year-old Londoner is not able to sustain the fib for long.
(12) This failure was not due to a direct suppressive effect of FIB and could not be corrected by exogenous IL1 or by factors contained in conventional mixed leukocyte culture supernatants.
(13) This displacement was not evident at lens positions simulating low plasma concentrations where large amounts of a-fib adsorbed.
(14) Transection of the common fibular (FIB) nerve caused an immediate reduction in the total amount of soleus (SOL) motor unit activity, which declined further during the following 10 days and then remained stable at less than half of normal values.
(15) The genotypic symbol fib is proposed for the spiroplasma fibril protein gene.
(16) The finding of increased FIB in DPVDs could have important implications for drug and surgical therapy in this group of patients.
(17) There were no correlations between EM-score and %fib.
(18) The presence of one or two additional FIB sites in the downstream region had no effect.
(19) The experience gained on a very treat number ofpatients shows that it is evident that the best method is the transposition of the tendons M. fib.
(20) Among the laboratory findings, WBC was 8, 100 (B 1, St 6, S 77, L 14, Mon 2), RBC 375 x 10(4), Hb 12.5, Ht 37, PLT 3.5 x 10(4), PT 15.6, PTT 68, Fib 158, FDP 10 and AT-III 75.
Fibula
Definition:
(n.) A brooch, clasp, or buckle.
(n.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.
(n.) A needle for sewing up wounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the other, the proximal fibula was excised and the epiphysis placed across the saphenous artery and vein in the groin.
(2) Limb abnormalities included lumbar scoliosis, short malformed tibias and fibulas, and polydactyly.
(3) Nine patients who had undergone free fibula transfer were reviewed to determine the incidence of donor site complications.
(4) We assessed the function of the posterior malleolus, the anterior tibiofibular ligament, and the fibula with regard to posterior stability of the talus in ten ankles of cadavera.
(5) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
(6) In 8 no subsequent procedure was necessary; 2 patients required additional bone grafts to augment the osseous reconstruction; viable fibulas were seen at reoperation.
(7) The biological and biomechanical properties of normal fibulae, fibulae that had had a sham operation, and both vascularized and non-vascularized autogenous grafts were studied in dogs at three months after the operation.
(8) The autogeneic fibula dove-tailed strut graft is favored over an iliac crest bone graft because with multilevel decompression in the cervical spine, it provided structural stability and a high union rate.
(9) In these cases the reposition and the osteosynthesis of the fibula neutralize fairly well also the motive forces acting on the tibial fracture.
(10) A case of acute plastic bowing fractures of both the fibula and tibia in a child is presented.
(11) Also examined were the vertebral column; femur, knee joint, tibia and fibula of the right hindlimb; and the tracheal cartilages.
(12) Cystic fibrosis was noted in the metatarsals on day 14 and in the tibia, fibula and tarsals on day 21 and progressed to become the dominant abnormality by day 35.
(13) Five years after completing adjuvant chemotherapy for osteosarcoma of the fibula, a 20-year-old woman developed an esophageal carcinoma.
(14) We report four patients with unilateral bowing of the lower leg, affecting only the fibula.
(15) We consider them to be bony origins of ligaments: at the sciatic tuber--the bony origin of the sacrotuberal ligament, at the distal fibula--the bony origin of the peroneal compartment of the retinaculum mm extensorum inferius.
(16) Large defects of the tibia can be bridged with autologous cancellous grafts between the remaining fibula and a contralateral tibial cortical graft.
(17) The area of proprioceptive nerve receptors around the distal part of the rat fibula was stripped surgically, and a standard fracture of the fibular shaft was produced.
(18) The usual application of one-third tubular plates to the lateral surface of the distal fibula has certain disadvantages.
(19) We report on 2 male propositi, their mothers, and a maternal aunt with a new skeletal dysplasia associated with a unique pattern of digital malformation, variable mild short stature, and mild bowleg with proximal overgrowth of the fibula.
(20) The method used most in the operative technique is the correction of valgus deviation at the head of the tibia after osteotomy of the fibula with stabilization with a fixateur externe.